Goetia Reviews

It's very beautiful & the soundtrack is great, but it is BRUTALLY difficult.

Interesting take on point and click adventures. The single slot inventory is never cumbersome and helps avoid the usual downfall of randomly using thing a on problem b. (Do still consider referencing a walkthrough for some of the more obscure puzzles...)

The word that comes to mind is astonishing. Gosh... this is, obscenely, exasperatingly obtuse and difficult. I've tried playing through twice, pouring out notes, scrutinising each area and so many details over and over... but despite getting far, both times I stopped. I'm a no hints kind of player; and after so many hours looping on feeling hopelessly stuck on one solve - then the next - the temptation had become so great to peep that I partially spoiled some solutions and just "noped!" out my playthoughs before the information could settle. See, I love point & clicks and puzzle games, and some rarer examples of them I think just deserve a sort of reverence to accept defeat. What I adore about Goetia is how the entire gameplay and puzzle set-up meshes so deftly with the rich atmosphere and themes permeating the game. You feel like a ghost returned from death, overwhelmed, stupefied, not knowing what to do or what to make of what's around. Even without completing it or concluding the story, for me this is one of the greats of the genre.

Overall Goetia is a good game. I liked it and the game was also the right length. Thing is didn't like: [list] [*] Some puzzles require knowledge not provided in game. [spoiler]I do not know piano notes.[/spoiler] [*] I am not deaf. But if you are one puzzle is impossible to solve for you. [*] For some reason the game always opened on my second monitor. [/list]